People Creeping.

I took some time to do some quick sketches of a few friends while at the beach, etc. Unfortunately, I had to take pictures of the sketches. No working scanner in the vicinity.

* She was hoola hooping. I thought her pose was rather funny.

Popcorn?

This was the first assignment from the beginning of my last quarter- March/April of 2010?

Here's the run down on our assignments. We are given 2 weeks/assignment. The first week is solely 2D planning, including shooting our own reference videos, thumbnail sketching and 2D planning (roughly animated on paper).

The second week is spent on the computer, that is- if our planning works out. If not, we have to tackle redoing our 2D as well as completing an animation on Maya.

This one was supposed to have our robot character experience an obvious change of emotion.

My gag on this one, however, didn't make a whole lot of sense. If I plan on putting this in my demo, I may have to re-think the idea.

Tonal!

...We got to do some tonal in life drawing recently. I have come to the realization that I definitely should use a hard charcoal next time, rather than grease pencil. Ah well, I still got one that I didn't mind.

I tried a experimenting with style also. Tell me what you think of it.

Latest Life Drawings

Here are some of my latest life drawings. I didn't get many good ones this time... Oh well. Can't win every time. Anyway, here are some of my better ones.

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Life Drawing

Some Life Drawings :

About Me

So, I figured it was about time I started posting some of my works. Everything I post is meant to be critiqued. Everything good and bad, I would greatly appreciate the feedback. Nothing in this world can ever be perfect, and that especially goes for animation! Please help me improve :)

I am currently attending the Art Institute in Burnaby/Vancouver for Animation. I have been here since October of 2008, and will be finishing this September.

I am from a small town called Invermere B.C., nestled within the Rocky Mountains.

WHAT MADE ME CHOOSE ANIMATION?

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I was inspired to become an animator after watching Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, and The Corpse Bride. I found the animators of those films absolutely fascinating. The possibility of creating life in little puppets like those seen in Burton's films blew my mind. It struck an interest in me, which budded from an interest in stop motion. From there on, I began participating in all drama projects, film projects, and kept at work in the art and creative writing rooms in my high school. I even created a stop motion short for film class.

Ultimately, I decided to become an animator after realizing that my passion lay within acting, film, story and traditional art. I couldn't choose just one form of art. Being able to combine EVERYTHING I love in to one art form just seemed too good to be true. And the fact that I love working with computers definitely helped concrete my decision in becoming a 3D character animator as well. The Art Institute of Vancouver definitely seemed to be a great fit.

I will be posting some works as I progress towards graduating.

EmM.